On February 29, 2012, we will be sunsetting the following versions and services: AdWords API versions v13, v200909, v201003, v201008, v201101 AdWords API version v13 AccountService will only be available on a whitelist basis. Calls made using these versions will return errors after February 29th. It is therefore critical that you migrate to AdWords API v201109 if you would like your applications to run without interruption.

Editor's note: As many of you are planning your 2012 advertisement strategy, we'd like to share with you this post from Karim Temsamani. It's a look back on 2011 and provides a great perspective on how mobile really took a step forward in the advertising ecosystem. - Stan Grinberg, Ads Developer Relations Team Mobile turned a corner this year. As smartphones and tablets became a part of our everyday lives,

Last month, we announced the ability to create both custom and template creatives using the DFP API. Today we'll show you can use these premium-only features to create richer creatives with custom HTML. Custom or template The difference between custom and template creatives is that custom creatives have their HTML snippet set within them, while template creatives are instantiated from system or user defined HTML snippets.

It's Chart Tools week here on the blog, and so we'll be showing you in a 4-part series how to easily generate charts for your AdSense reporting using Google Chart Tools . In today's second post we'll examine how to generate another type of chart: a column chart. Column chart The second item required by our CEO is a column chart . The column chart will show the number of page views, ad requests,

It's Monday morning, and you're sitting in front of your computer, ready for a relaxed start of the week. But wait! You've received an email from your CEO. He wants you to add AdSense reporting to his dashboard, and he wants to see the following: a line chart showing the number of ad requests for the current year, broken down by month a column chart showing the number of page views, ad requests, matched ad requests and individual ad impressions for the current year,

In addition to retrieving performance statistics, AdWords API developers often use the reporting system to get structural information about an account. These reports can be used to quickly synchronize a local database without having to make a series of expensive get)( calls to the API. Unlike v13 which had a dedicated Structure Report for this purpose,

The v201111 version of the DoubleClick for Publishers )DFP( API introduces SuggestedAdUnitService which lets you get and approve those ad units that have tags on your web pages, but no corresponding ad units in DFP. By default, only ad tags that have 10 or more requests will be returned as suggested ad units . They can be approved using performSuggestedAdUnitAction , after which they become ad units and you can manipulate them using InventoryService . To use this service,

Last month we provided a new channel for developers to reach us: AdWords API office hours on Google+ Hangouts. Based on positive feedback from participants, we've decided to schedule additional Hangouts. In this next round we are including one more time slot for the European region. Please join us via Google+ Hangouts during the following hours: U.S. session: Friday, 16th Dec, 1PM EST / 10AM PST; Europe session: Friday, 16th Dec, 11AM London / 12 PM Frankfurt / 3PM Moscow.

We're very pleased to announce the release of AdWhirl v3.1.1 for both Android and iOS platforms. This update heralds support for the Nexage ad network and includes refreshed adapters for Millennial Media , InMobi , and AdMob ensuring support for their latest SDK versions. Additionally, we've taken the opportunity to fix several bugs,

As part of routine upgrades to our infrastructure to improve performance and reliability and along with the announced sunsets scheduled for February 29th, we are planning to change our SSL certificates to use wildcards in the common name )CN(. Our certificates will therefore be configured as CN *.google.com instead of adwords.google.com. In most cases we foresee no changes required on your side,

Today we'd like to introduce you to the v201111 version of the DoubleClick for Publishers API. v201111 is one of our largest versions yet; it includes some highly-requested features such as full support for mobile ad serving, new creative types including templates, video player environment targeting, reporting updates, and suggested ad units. A full list of features can be found on our release notes page .

On October 25th we launched the AdSense Management API and have since followed up with instructive blog posts and forum discussions. To provide you with even more avenues for having your questions answered, we invite you to our first AdSense API Office Hours Google+ Hangout .

We've seen a lot of forum activity about how to migrate from v4.1.1 to v4.3.1 of the Google AdMob Ads SDK for Android, so we'd like to share three easy steps to get you up and running with the latest version. The first step to migrating is downloading the AdMob SDK and adding it to your build path. You will need to have an Android SDK of 3.2 or higher. Once you have a compatible version, set target=android-13 or higher in your project.

The DoubleClick for Publishers API team is excited to announce our first Google+ Hangout Office Hours session on December 7th at 2pm Eastern )11am Pacific(. Across the Google Developer Relations team we have seen tremendous positive feedback regarding these Hangouts and we are looking forward to opening a new channel for our developers to converse and ask questions about the API. Specifically, the DFP API team is interested in understanding how you, our developers,

Welcome to the new Google Ads Developer blog, your one-stop shop for all ads developer related news, tips, and tricks. We've combined several blogs to create this central hub, so you can find information on AdWords, AdSense, DoubleClick and AdMob APIs and SDKs. If you prefer to subscribe to a particular label, you can do so by clicking on the following feeds: adwords_api , adsense_api , dfp_api , dfa_api , admob_sdk , and mobile . Thanks for stopping by,

Last year , we provided you with a bonus of 20% more AdWords API units at no additional cost. We're pleased to announce that we're bringing back our holiday bonus this year. Starting now and extending through January 15, 2012, you'll receive 20% more API units at no additional cost. Here are the details: Developers can purchase AdWords API units at the rate of 1250 for 0.25 USD, up from 1000 for 0.25 USD.

We would like to announce an important change to the process of downloading reports from the AdWords API that will affect all report downloads for tools built on API versions post v13. Currently, downloading reports costs no API units and has previously not required a developer token. To allow us to better monitor usage of reports, we will start requiring a developer token when downloading reports. Downloading reports will still cost zero API units.

We've just released a new My Client Center )MCC( feature called multiple links , which makes it easier for agencies, SEMs, AdWords API developers, other 3rd party providers and clients to work together while taking advantage of the benefits of the MCC structure . It enables up to five MCCs to link to and manage a single AdWords account as necessary. Multiple links also removes the distinction that Google currently has between UI and API and API-only links.

With the release of v201109 we are happy to announce that we now fully support OAuth 1.0 a in the AdWords API. OAuth is an open standard for authorization. Google uses this standard to allow applications to access a user's data )in this case AdWords( without requiring the user to give the application their Google username and password. In OAuth, an application starts by contacting Google with an OAuth request. Next,

A common question for the AdWords API Team is "when is the best time to run reports" )and for that matter, when to retrieve statistical data via the API(. The quick answer is: it depends on the type of data and report. Read on for details. The reporting system is very complex and statistical data is not available in realtime. For most reports and API services,